Workmen's advocate., 1887-03-19

charges you and that settles it. If you happen to be unable to get an other job, you cease to exist; vul gar ly speaking-starve. You cannot be too considerate in the matter of your employers interests. Study them; recall how much you owe to him. Your food, your clothing, the privilege to get married and ac- cumulate a family. And while you are about it, don't forget the land lord and what you owe to him for for the permission to remain on the surface of the earth. The rent is not all; you must figure to retain his good will. If all the landlords should combine and refuse you a resting place, you would be con- pelled to go to the end of the earth and jump off. Yes, you are in debt body and soul to your employer
 "You want to improve your position, to earn more wages; therefore you must render yourself more valuable to your employer by devoting all your time and talents to his interests. Then, if he will not pay you better, someone else will. Make yourself valuable to your employer and it will pay him to retain your ser vices, if he has to increase your wages to do so.
 Very good advice. Make yourself invaluable to your employer. Seek out new devices to improve his bus mess. Make his interests your own. After you have introduced new system and gotten it into work ing order, he will discharge you and hire a boy who lives with his parents to take your place at three dollars per week. But don't let little things like that, discourage you. Virtue is its own reward. The happy con- sciousness of having done your duty, and the prospects of d home in Heaven will compensate for any meals which you may inadvertently miss on this mundane sphere.
 Be respectful to you employer. both in his presence and in his absence; then you will win his respect and that of your fellow-workmen.
 Good again Here is a pleasing addition in the shape of poetry, to which we would respectfully direct the attention of the workingmen.
 TO MY EMPLOYER:
 'Tis for thee that l work, and for thee
 that pray;
 Dream of thee ny night, and serve the
 by day.
 We think this will he about the size of the "giant of Canadian intel lect." Respect your employer. Retrospect him, aspect him, inspect him, and above all, suspect him, in addition you can't bring too many specs to bear upon him. Cp aloft there sits d foolkiler who, tradition says, descends periodically and takes off the more monumental lmbeclles who mar the triumphal forward march of humanity. Do you wish to make his acquaintance? When you imbibe the idea that your em- ployer respects you he will certainly give you call. Respect is good thing in it's place, but it won't buy you food or clothing. It won't buy anything in fact; and the employer who pays you in respect will deduct the equivalent from your wages. Don't forget the fact that you cant wear respect, or eat respect. You can't pass respect ticket on the railroads; nor get anything advanced OH respect, at the "three balls. Give your employer anything which he is willing to pay for. Don't cater for his respect. What you want is the full and undivided product of your labor. This is Socialism.
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